Claire Flint

Non-Executive Director

Claire Flint has a portfolio career as a Non-Executive Director (NED); she chairs AWEs remuneration committee and is its senior independent director. Claire is a NED and Chair of the Remuneration and Appointments Committee for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and was previously Vice-Chair of Scope, the Disability Charity, and a Senior Independent Director at National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL).

Until 2016, Claire was HR and Brand Director for Oxford Instruments plc, a leading nanotechnology tools provider. She served on the Oxford Instruments Management Board for more than ten years during a period of significant organic and acquisitive growth. Before this, she worked for Diageo plc, Bass Brewing and the National Westminster Bank in a variety of HR positions.

Claire has a BA in History from London University and a postgraduate diploma in Labour Studies.

Latest news

Actinides Centre of Excellence in partnership with the University of Manchester

AWE and The University of Manchester launch Actinides Centre of Excellence

AWE has strengthened its strategic partnership with The University of Manchester, through the launch of the Actinides Centre of Excellence (ACE) – a new centre being created at the university to grow world-leading capability in actinides science and related nuclear research.

AWE scientists contribute to landmark scientific breakthrough

A team of physicists, including scientists from AWE, has demonstrated for the first time a practical route to dramatically increasing the intensity of radiation achievable in the laboratory, an area of research that has enduring relevance to AWE’s mission.

AWE CEO Nick Elliott CB MBE appointed to Royal Engineers Association Board

This appointment recognises a distinguished career spanning military leadership, national infrastructure, and some of the UK’s most critical defence and resilience programmes.